Let me know if anything else i can try. Thanks again.
. . .
Can't. The specification is too sparse (for me) to analyse the error you describe, and the samples don't allow to reproduce it. So don't expect to learn what is going wrong.
Let me open my magic box, dig out my soft skills, and try to paraphrase what I infer from your data and what you say:
There is a file with replacement definitions in the shape varA=ValA, and a (or some) file(s) in which to-be-replaced entries are enclosed in ~ . Entries found are to be substituted by the defined new values.
SHOULD this be close to what you want, consider this proposal:
Hi,
I'm trying to compare Actual.html with a baseline.html
However, everytime it fails b'coz of the timestamp differences
between the two. So, thought of stripping off the timestamp
from both the *html files before comparing using below sed
command over Solaris Unix platform:... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need convert a dump file in the following format : (please note that line numbers are provided for easy look)
Original file:
1 2007-10-2482.90 No trade 0 0.00 100000.00
2 100000.00
3 0.00
4 HOLD
5 2007-10-2589.75 Bought 1114 1114 100000.00 0.00
... (5 Replies)
cat file.txt
fvnuiehuewf
ruevhxncvkjrh
zxjvurhfuwe
jkhvBEGINvfnvf
ijrgioe
Trying to delete a line that has the pattern "BEGIN"
cat sedtest
filename=file.txt
pattern=BEGIN
sed "/^$pattern/d" "$filename" (9 Replies)
Can anyone help me get this small sed script to work in shell on the command line?
I need it in a one liner really as i want to edit many scripts in a for loop and dont want to have to invoke a separate script each time.
#!/bin/sh
sed '/mailx\ -s.*$ {
i\
#Comment above mailx line ... (5 Replies)
Hi
Is it possible to do the following in a single command
/usr/xpg4/bin/sed -e '/rows selected/d' /aemu/CALLAUTO/callauto.txt > /aemu/CALLAUTO/callautonew.txt
/usr/xpg4/bin/sed -e '/^$/d' /aemu/CALLAUTO/callautonew.txt > /aemu/CALLAUTO/callauto_new.txt
exit (1 Reply)
Hi there,
I'd like to delete the beginning of a line up until it finds a certain word or character string: in this case, I'd like to delete each line up to the word "mounting".
Thanks ;)
Susan (12 Replies)
Hi all,
I ahve a program which has to delete a line in a file... if i run the sed command through shell prompt it works fine. But if run it using code its throwing error. May i know where i am doing wrong.
the file has 3 lines
# cat /root/.ssh/known_hosts... (4 Replies)
sed /'1-2'/&^/ filename
suppose there is a file containing three lines , how do we do delete the word from each line?
hyter efr frf
rerfer efe ewd
cdcf evrfgf erfv
the output has to look like
frf
ewd
erfv (2 Replies)
It looks like if matching and deleting the last line confuses 'sed' so it does not recognize '$' address. Consider:
sed -e '/^3/d' -e '$ a text'
supposed to delete a line starting with '3' and then append 'text' after the last line of input. But, if it is the last line of input which starts... (2 Replies)
I have a simple task to replace unix line feed end of line characters with carriage returns.
When I run the following “change file in place” sed instruction from the command line all the Line feeds are successfully replaced with Carriage returns.
sed -i 's/$/\r/' lf_file.txt
But that same... (1 Reply)